MFCompress: a compression tool for FASTA and multi-FASTA data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The data deluge phenomenon is becoming a serious problem in most genomic centers. To alleviate it, general purpose tools, such as gzip, are used to compress the data. However, although pervasive and easy to use, these tools fall short when the intention is to reduce as much as possible the data, for example, for medium- and long-term storage. A number of algorithms have been proposed for the compression of genomics data, but unfortunately only a few of them have been made available as usable and reliable compression tools.

Results

In this article, we describe one such tool, MFCompress, specially designed for the compression of FASTA and multi-FASTA files. In comparison to gzip and applied to multi-FASTA files, MFCompress can provide additional average compression

SUBMITTER: Pinho AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3866555 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature